Only going to be driving an Icom 9100 into it without an amp, for now. I can always mount it on my aluminum cabana for receive only.
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Finally got the Sirio in place.
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FT8 Huntin Mudd Duck on the deep end of the pond !
A good antenna and Propagation is going to be your edge - You can drive all the power in the world but if it does no have a good
place to leave the house its pointless.
250 Watts will improve your ground wave talk but the Sky Gods control the Skip !
Like PRC Said By a Sirio 4000 Vector J Pole Antenna !
Pete N1EXA
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Out of all the Sirio CB line I personally like the 2016 model with its small ground plane footprint, neighbor friendly look and great performance. Out of all CB base antennas I'll take the Hy-Gain Penetrator any day.
"You can drive all the power in the world but if it does no have a good place to leave the house its pointless." I ran across a ham friend a week ago on 38 LSB who lives about 75 mi away tucked up against a 3,000ft mountain in the way with another 3,000ft mountain in between us. He was coming in great around S9 and I thought he was mobile on top of his local mountain.
Instead he was home running about 3kW (on his 10kW amp turned down) at his house with two mountains in the way. This was not skip, just a lot of power into a good antenna up at a reasonable height.
"You can drive all the power in the world but if it does no have a good place to leave the house its pointless." I ran across a ham friend a week ago on 38 LSB who lives about 75 mi away tucked up against a 3,000ft mountain in the way with another 3,000ft mountain in between us. He was coming in great around S9 and I thought he was mobile on top of his local mountain.
Instead he was home running about 3kW (on his 10kW amp turned down) at his house with two mountains in the way. This was not skip, just a lot of power into a good antenna up at a reasonable height.
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